Are All Warriors Male? is a full of life inquiry into questions of gender at the historic Eurasian steppes. The book's participants are archaeologists who paintings in jap Europe, vital Asia, and japanese Asia, and this quantity is the results of their box learn during this giant. As little has been written concerning the proof of gender roles in ancient—or modern—pastoralist societies, this publication is helping to fill an empty area of interest in our knowing of ways sexual roles and identities have formed and been formed through such social and cultural situations. Are All Warriors Male? is a groundbreaking paintings that demanding situations present conceptions concerning the improvement of human societies during this nice cauldron of humanity.

This quantity of papers is devoted to Peter Woodman in occasion of his contribution to archaeology, delivering a glimpse of the various ways that he has touched the lives of such a lot of. The twenty-one contributions hide many facets of predominantly Mesolithic archaeology in eire, mainland Britain and North-west Europe, reflecting the diversity and breadth of Peters personal pursuits and the foreign esteem during which his paintings is held.

This quantity deals a whole overview of the paintings of the Tikal venture of the college of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. issues comprise preliminary motivations and theoretical issues, systems and criteria utilized in excavation, an entire stock of all excavations undertaken, an inventory of expected courses, and a undertaking bibliography.

The sociopolitical weather of Hawai‘i has replaced considerably in contemporary many years, and archaeologists operating to decipher the islands’ earlier are more and more confronted with a complexity of concerns related to Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) issues. between those are the rush for sovereignty; cultural perpetuation and revitalization; felony demanding situations to Kanaka Maoli courses, resembling Hawaiian domestic Lands and the workplace of Hawaiian Affairs; and compliance with the local American Graves safety and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).

This nuanced account explores Maya mythology during the lens of artwork, textual content, and tradition. It bargains a big reexamination of the mid-16th-century Popol Vuh, lengthy thought of an authoritative textual content, that's larger understood as one amongst many an important assets for the translation of historical Maya paintings and fable.